CELL-TERRITORIES OF CARTILAGE. 99 



been previously hardened in spirit. Sections should 

 be made both parallel with and across the bundles 

 of tendinous fibres. They are to be stained with 

 logwood and mounted in glycerine. It will be seen 

 in the longitudinal sections that the cartilage-cells 

 lie in chains between the tendon bundles, occupying 

 the place of the ordinary tendon-cells; from these 

 they are chiefly characterized by their sharpness of 

 outline and (in transverse sections) the absence of 

 lamellar extensions, as well as their greater thick- 

 ness ; but transitions between the two are not unfre- 

 quent, especially near the tendon insertion. 



